174.5 km from Lyon to Grand Colombier, terrible the last 80 km with three Gpm
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14.52 – the climb begins
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At 72 km from the finish, the eight fugitives have an advantage of 4’28 “over their pursuers, the average of the race is 50.3 km / h. The eight attackers are Kevin Ledanois (Arkéa-Samsic), Simon Geschke and Matteo Trentin (CCC), Jesús Herrada (Cofidis), Marco Marcato (UAE Emirates), Niccolò Bonifazio (Total Direct Energie), Michael Gogl (NTT Pro Cycling) and Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept). The sprinters start to break away and in the group there is also Julian Alaphilippe.
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2.40 pm – the first ascent is approaching
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At 80 km from the finish, the advantage of the eight breakaway riders is 4’31 “over the group, pulled by the Jumbo – Visma of the Primoz Roglic yellow jersey. The average of the race is 50.6 km / h when the first climb of day, the Montèe de la Selle de Fromentel (first category, 11.1 km at 8.1% with peaks of 22%).
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14.17 – the gap rises to four minutes
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At 98 km from the finish, the eight fugitives have a 4’02 “advantage over the yellow jersey group. The average of the race is 51.4 km / h.
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14.05 – the advantage increases
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The fugitives have a 3’27 “advantage over the group when there are 107 km to the finish. The eight men in command are Kevin Ledanois (Arkéa-Samsic), Simon Geschke and Matteo Trentin (CCC), Jesús Herrada (Cofidis), Marco Marcato ( UAE Emirates), Niccolò Bonifazio (Total Direct Energie), Michael Gogl (NTT Pro Cycling) and Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept).
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13.59 – Trentin first in the intermediate
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Matteo Trentin is the first to cross the finish line of the intermediate sprint. The green jersey Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick Step) wins the sprint of the group ahead of team mate Michael Morkov and Peter Sagan (Bora – Hansgrohe).
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13.46 – Carapaz falls
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Group clash, crash for Richard Carapaz (Ineos), winner of the Giro d’Italia 2019. Carapaz gets up quickly and re-enters the yellow jersey group. The eight breakaway runners have a 2’00 “advantage over their pursuers when 121 km are missing from the finish.
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13.35 – Higuita retires
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The Colombian is forced to give up his attempt to rejoin the group, the Colombian of EF Pro Cycling retires due to injuries sustained in the fall at the beginning of the stage. Rigoberto Uran has to give up precious support for the mountain stages.
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13.26 – Trentin still on the attack together with Bonifazio
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At km 30 the runners on the run are Kevin Ledanois (Arkéa-Samsic), Simon Geschke and Matteo Trentin (CCC), Jesús Herrada (Cofidis), Marco Marcato (UAE Emirates), Niccolò Bonifazio (Total Direct Energie), Michael Gogl (NTT Pro Cycling) and Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) with a 15 “lead over the group. Bob Jungels (Deceuninck – Quick Step) tries to catch them but is forced to get up. After the crash Higuita has a delay of 1’31” than the yellow jersey group.
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13.21 – high pace
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In the first kilometers of the race the pace of the group is very high: 54.3 km / h. The runners covered 28 km in 30 minutes. Matteo Trentin (CCC) and Elia Viviani (Cofidis), among others, also tried the attack, recovered quickly.
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13.06 – Cade Higuita
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Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick Step), Stefan Küng (Groupama – Fdj), Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels – Vital Concept) and Jerome Cousin (Team Total Direct Energie) immediately try to escape but are taken back by the group. Bad slip for Sergio Higuita, the Colombian of EF Pro Cycling gets up after a few minutes with a bandage on his left elbow and tries to get back into the group.
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Path
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The long-awaited Alpine stage closes the second week of the 2020 Tour de France, later yesterday’s stage won by Soren Kragh Andersen on a quiet day for the big names. Primoz Roglic will try to keep the yellow jersey and perhaps will try again to gain precious seconds over his opponents in the 174.5 km from Lyon to Grand Colombier, terrible the last 80 km with three GPM and more than 35 km of climbing. Departure at 12.20, starting with the Montèe de la Selle de Fromentel (first category, 11.1 km at 8.1% average but with peaks of 22%), then the Col de la Biche (first category, 6.9 km at 8.9%) before the final ascent towards the finish. The big names will battle 17.4 km long with an average gradient of 7.1% but with large stretches of over 10% (Hors Catégorie) up to the 1501 meters of Grand Colombier.
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The ranking
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1. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 2. Pogacar (UAE Emirates) +44 ” 3. Bernal (Team Ineos) +59 ” 4. Uran + 1’10 “5. Quintana + 1’12” 6. MA Lopez + 1’31 “7. A. Yates + 1’42” 8. Landa + 1’55 “9. Carriage + 2’06” 10. Mas + 2’54 “
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